In Italy 3.5 million minors are at risk of poverty and social exclusion. This disheartening fact has just been released by Eurostat, just in time for Universal Children’s Day, which will take place on ...

Fewer spaces and opportunities for Italian children. Caught between poverty, lack of services and no culture, the 5th Atlas of childhood by Save the Children says. According to the study about 700 thousand children ...

Preventing school dropout and urban decay with painting. It happens in Borgo Vecchio, one of the most at risk of poverty and social exclusion areas of Palermo. Where the associations PUSH and Per Esempio ...

The death rate among children under-five in Italy has decreased over one century. Passing from 399,505 in 1887 to 2,084 in 2011. In this period (1887-2011), the corresponding mortality rate considerably dropped from 347 ...

Each year 7 million children (720 per hour) die before reaching the age of five because of reasons often preventable and curable. Malnutrition becomes responsible for about one third of these deaths, affecting 171 ...